Comments by "Ray Epps Second Cousin Reggie" (@gazinta) on "Is Violence Ever Justified? | Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali, Elif Sarican" video.

  1. Pound for pound, honeybees are 1000× more violent than humans are. Theyll sacrifice 90% of the colony to protect one bee. Also, lake perch are 100× more aggressive and territorial than a Great White shark. Your hypothesis is slightly flawed.
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  2. Precisely. But first a person must establish a moral high ground. To save time, many will resort to de-humanizing the opposer by calling them an oppressor. That woman is a good example of making the case: "If it weren't for men, violence wouldn't exist.". She is clearly taking a position that women are morally superior to men, but men have all the power. For a better society, men need to relinquish that power to women, and become their subordinates. She's one step away from saying if she can't convince people by democracy, than resorting to violence and taking power by force might be necessary if she wants to achieve her goals before she dies. The men are saying that communism and Nazism are bad, but then she goes back to her anectodal experiences in Syria as the justification for necessary violence to achieve goals of oppressors. They've pretty much told her that her women's lib struggle is cute, but not like being killed 100 million at a time. I'm sure her gender studies professor is proud of her, but that Arab looking guy in the audience looked like he wanted her head on a pole! She equated women's suffrage to an annihilation of an entire people. That's disingenuous at very best. That Canadian guy is pretty persistent, and it's as if he's reading a book that he wrote himself. He tends to take a centrist approach, and has stats in his memory. The guy with the moustache is equally smart, but very guarded and snobbish. Towards the end, the woman goes right back and rallies the audience claiming that the majority of the audience agrees with her, yet she knows nothing about their backgrounds. She then projects her anectodal experience with vague generalizations. That's not debating, that's selling.
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  3.  @danielgyllenbreider  Just Clinton? Women have been clubbing their husbands over the heads for years! Even the heroines of the Old Testament Bible were brutal and disobedient.
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  4. That's why we use democracy. If people can convince opposers through fact-based evidence, then the vote changes. If they just repeat things over and over without any evidence, they may just lose the support they once had. That's when the frustration results in violence. Just look at Antifa. Anyone that challenges their theories with facts are quickly silenced.
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  5. No he doesn't. I do.
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  6. I know some pretty violent feminists. I suppose it's a reaction to the patriarchy, therefore men's fault, too?
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